duniyaa-sharmaa-jaaegii
About this song
- Singers
- Neeti Mohan, Nakash Aziz
- Lyrics
- Rakesh Kumar
- Music
- Vishal-Shekhar
- On screen
- Ishaan Khatter, Ananya Panday
duniyaa-sharmaa-jaaegii (Hindi: दुनिया शर्मा जाएगी, Urdu: دُنیا شرما جائے~گی) "The World Will Feel Ashamed", is a song featured in the 2020 Bollywood movie "Khaali Peeli".
The song's video clip is basically an "item number" where the two main protagonists, "Blackie" (Ishaan Khatter ) and Pooja (Ananya Panday) lip-sync and dance with the wardrobe and background of a carnival fair.
The song's lyrics were written by Rakesh Kumar.
The original lyrics contained these lines:
ho tujhe dekh ke goriyaa Oh, after seeing you, fair lady beyonse sharmaa jaaegii Beyoncé will feel ashamed
These lines referred to the popular US African-American singer Beyoncé Knowles.
Because the term goriyaa implies "fair" in the sense of "light-skinned", it could be interpreted that Beyoncé would be envious of Pooja's fairer skin, which was seen by some people as racist.
In view of the controversy, the movie makers decided to change those lines to the current ones:
ho teraa dekh ke naxraa Oh, having watched your coquetries, ye duniyaa sharmaa jaaegii this world will feel ashamed
Despite the change, this song continued to receive thousands of negative comments on social media deploring it for a range of reasons, ranging from poor acting, to lack of dancing skills, to "not being representative of Indian values", to nepotism (as both protagonists were born into families of actors).
The song's music was composed by the duo Vishal-Shekhar.
The playback singers were Nakash Aziz for the male parts, and Neeti Mohan for the female parts.